OREANDA-NEWS. September 13, 2016.
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, announced today that
Mike Foliano, senior vice
president of operations, will present a case study on how ADTRAN has
addressed the environmental impact of its products’ lifecycles from
design, through build, to deployment. Delivered during a keynote address
as part of the QuEST Forum Service Provider Summit, Foliano will
articulate how ADTRAN’s environmental stewardship program creates
positive and long-term improvement within the company, its suppliers,
manufacturing partners, distribution network and end customers. Summit
attendees will learn from Foliano’s insight how they can better utilize
Earth’s natural resources to create a more environmentally sustainable
and conscious industry while improving profitability across the
information and communication technology (ICT) industry.
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What:
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Keynote Presentation: "ADTRAN's Sustainability Journey," by Mike
Foliano, Senior Vice President of Operations, ADTRAN
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Where:
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QuEST Service Provider Summit, Nashville, Tennessee
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When:
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9:30 am CST, September 13, 2016
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Abstract:
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Creating sustainability practices starts on the product creation
drawing board, as products can be designed to use a lower amount of
energy to operate, which can lead to a cost savings over time and
lower the environmental impact of the device over its life span.
Continuously improving upon the extraction and utilization of
natural resources through fair labor practices also plays a critical
role in sustainability. While it may seem costly, these practices
can improve profitability for companies that seek to become more
environmentally viable.
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“Over the past 10 years, ADTRAN has created corporate transparency to be
more green and support key environmental saving initiatives by creating
products that have a lower environmental footprint; reducing energy and
water consumption in our business; pursuing an aggressive policy of
recycling materials; and providing sustainability awareness throughout
the company,” said Foliano. “It is vital that companies around the world
become better corporate citizens and have clear sustainability
objectives in place to ensure that their corporate growth does not harm
the generations of the future. For ADTRAN, implementing these procedures
is about doing the right thing—not only as a technology provider, but as
a global company—as these types of changes affect the entire planet.”
QuEST Forum is a global association of companies dedicated to impacting
the quality and sustainability of products and services in the ICT
industry. ADTRAN is a charter member of QuEST Forum and is a key
participant in the forum’s strategic initiatives. The Service Providers
Summit provides an opportunity for ICT service providers and their
suppliers to come together and collaborate on best practices and discuss
issues that they are facing in the ICT industry. Foliano’s keynote aims
to provide more insight into the vital importance of lessening a
company’s overall environmental impact and footprint and how other
companies can follow suit to become more environmentally aware.
“QuEST Forum provides an opportunity for the ICT industry to come
together and discuss new ways of both furthering ICT industry standards
and ethical sustainability practices. In addition, we recently launched
an online self-assessor capability (QuEST Assessor) to help
organizations go from a cold start, to a comprehensive view of their
current status and a clear path for improvement. We are pleased ADTRAN
continues to play a vital role in helping to improve upon those
standards and practices,” said
Fraser Pajak, CEO of QuEST Forum. “As a
charter member of QuEST Forum, ADTRAN has contributed standards
improvements in our TL 9000 certification, which benchmarks ICT industry
specific standards, as well as shapes the direction of standards for
sustainability practices for the ICT industry. By sharing the strategies
it utilizes for proper sustainability practices, ADTRAN’s leadership is
actively contributing to the improvement of the industry as a whole.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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